PC Gaming
When Microsoft laid off an astonishing 9,000 people in July, the long-awaited Perfect Dark reboot was among the casualties. The main studio working on it—The Initiative—was shuttered, but co-developers Crystal Dynamics tried to salvage the project by cutting a publishing deal with Take-Two. The deal never eventuated because Take-Two and Microsoft couldn’t agree on who…
Every so often, a wonderful thing happens: someone young enough to have missed out on using computers in the early 1990s is introduced to the Windows 3.1 “Hot Dog Stand” color scheme. Back in the day Windows was pretty plain looking out of the box, with grey windows and blue highlights as the default. A…
On your way to becoming a blacksmithing master, The Forge tasks you with learning the ins and outs of gathering with Umut The Brave’s quest, The Basics of Mining. He has a fairly simple request—just bring him a few resources—but you’ll need to know how to get Stone in The Forge to check off the…
Our rundown of what to expect from this year’s edition of The Game Awards includes a brief note about a supposed leak of a trailer for Shenmue 4, shared by a YouTube account with eight (now 12) subscribers. Is it really a leak, or just an elaborate fake? It’s looking like the latter, as Ys…
The final nominees for the Players’ Voice category at The Game Awards 2025 have been announced, and I’m sorry to say that indie darling Megabonk is—again—out of the running. And this time, there’s no coming back. It’s been quite a journey for Megabonk. Developer Vedinad withdrew the game from contention in the Best Debut Indie…
Jonathan Rogers, one of the co-founders of the studio behind Path of Exile, isn’t afraid to call his own game too old to be the perfect action RPG. The first PoE had its moment and now it lives comfortably on updates made to please its most dedicated fans. It’s not going anywhere, but it’s also…
When I sat down to chat with Ripple Effect studio design director Justin Wiebe last week, we’d planned to talk RedSec. Wiebe helped lead the charge on Battlefield 6’s battle royale mode developed primarily at the Los Angeles-based Ripple Effect, but on the day, we ended up chatting more about Portal—its expansive feature set, boundless…
Of all the ideological struggles pervading our world today, none is more crucial than the effort to decide what we should actually call all the games like Vampire Survivors. This week, more than 450 developers are joining forces to solve that frustrating quandary of categorical nomenclature with a public survey aiming to finally settle on…
YouTube channel InsideAI has managed to pull off quite the stunt: encouraging an AI robot to shoot its presenter. The video, titled “ChatGPT in a real robot does what experts warned,” is a wider look at the issues involved in the search for superintelligence, the involvement of such systems with the military, and how various…
The Humble folks put out some pretty good bundles in 2025, and if you missed any of them you might get one more kick at the can before the year is over. For the next 12 days, Humble Bundle is bringing back 36 of “the hottest game, book and software bundles,” but for a much…